European challenges and opportunities for the youth entrepreneurship

EUROPEAN CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Project Description:
The project “European Challenges and Opportunities for the Youth Entrepreneurship” is oriented towards the creation of strategic collaboration for innovations and exchange of good practices in the sphere of the youth entrepreneurship. The project offer will gather 6 partner organizations, uniting their professional skills for working youths in high social and technological level. The project corresponds with the main aims and priorities of the European Commission in the development and the implementation of strategic document for stimulation of the intelligence growth of the capacity of the target groups and the main participants of the European Educational System. The project offer is addressed to the aims, challenges and needs in the education policy and the spreading of knowledge among young people in the sphere of entrepreneurship and the exchange of good practices in the sector of the international partners. According to the plan in the field of Entrepreneurship till 2020 there must be done investments in the change of community’s perception of entrepreneurs, in the education of entrepreneurship and in support of the groups which are not as strongly presented towards the entrepreneurs as the others. The plan is build up on the 3 main stages:
- Entrepreneurship education and teaching
- The creation of an atmosphere in which the entrepreneurs can develop their knowledge and skills, based on the non-formal methods and the usage of information and communication technologies
- The development of imitation models and the reach of specific groups whose entrepreneurship potential is big enough

The main aim of the project “European Challenges and Opportunities for the Youth Entrepreneurship” is entirely oriented towards the achievement of new value in the non-formal education and learning of the youths with strong sense of motivation for realization of their own potential through information and communication technologies and other free educational resources.
An online educational platform will be developed, built up of different modules in order to transfer of knowledge and skills of young entrepreneurs in the different sectors on education, exchange of good practices and finding appropriate partners for the realization of the business ideas and aims. All this will be developed, using many approaches such as videos, multimedia and text formats, which will be free for all target groups. As a second part of the foreshortening of the main aim is the development of a mobile app. In this way the target groups, using this format will be reached easily. The mobile app will help for the opportunity to have groups that are far away from each other and everyone will be able to post good practices in every moment.

The specific aims of the project offer are:
- Improving the quality of the offered service in the field of education, spreading of knowledge and stimulation of the youths’ entrepreneurship through the development of innovative methods;
- Encouragement to give key skills for business entrepreneurship in the regions of the participants in the project.
- Encouragement to use innovative practices in the strategic usage of informational and communicational technologies and other educational resources, virtual mobility and other learning approaches;
- Increasing the professional development of the youth workers through the introduction of new methods, improving the quality of the education at the beginning including new pedagogic methods and practices;
- Encouragement of the education in the sphere of entrepreneurship to develop the active citizenship, including social entrepreneurship.
- Encouragement of the social uniting of the young people and the stimulation on their participation in the project offer for dealing with the unemployment.

Activities:
- Collaboration between organizations, exchanging good practices;
- Encouragement of the development, test and implementation of new innovative practices in the fields of education and youths;
- International initiatives, promoting the entrepreneurship skills to encourage the active citizen entrepreneurship, including the social one;
- Developments of an online modules and a platform with opened educational resources for non-formal education, motivating young people in the field of their professions in future;
- Education, work with youths and development of work in a network;
- To inform and orient the youths through non-formal education and consultant activities for the challenges in the youths entrepreneurship;
- Conducting specialised researches, analysis, collecting information for good practices. Marking the innovative online products and their organization.

Expected results:
- Development of the inter sector strategic partnership between 7 organizations with different professional qualifications
- Conducting a research and analysis among young people for their needs and reporting the challenges in the field of youths’ entrepreneurship
- Giving educational resources to the youth workers, teachers in the professional school the university ones, who will be able to use it in their job with youths
- Developing skills and giving knowledge for young people’s needs in the sphere of entrepreneurship
- Exchange of good practices between youth workers, teachers of vocational schools, professors from universities in entrepreneurship
- Conducting four transnational organizational meetings for training, capacity building and networking between youth workers, teachers of vocational schools, professors from universities in entrepreneurship
- Conducting national meetings in order awareness of the challenges and opportunities in youth entrepreneurship, formation of 10 local working groups in each partner country and a national competition for young entrepreneurs to set entrepreneurial demands and needs of the analyses
- Developing and operating electronic platform composed of free educational modules and audio-visual content addressed to young people, youth workers, teachers of vocational schools, professors from universities in entrepreneurship
- Developed internet mobile application for greater comfort consumers correspond to the modules of the e-learning platform

Target groups and participants:
- Practitioners;
- Staff working in education and training;
- youth workers;
- Experts, specialists, professionals;
- Students, apprentices, trainees, students, adult learners, young people,
- Volunteers;
- NEETs (people not in employment, education or training - people who neither work
- neither in education or training);
- Young people with disabilities;
- Early school leavers;
- People responsible for decision-making;
- Researchers.

Project Partners:

To participate in the project will need to include three members of the following types of organizations:
- University.
- School / Institute / institute (at every level, from preschool to secondary education, including vocational training and adult education)
- Non-profit organization, association, NGOs.
- Organisation providing career guidance, counseling and information services.
- A group of young people active in the work in the field of youth .
- Any public or private organization established in a Programme Country or in a partner such registered ECAS and possessing PIC.

Conditions:
Working and creative meetings (lasting six days) will be held in Bulgaria, total duration of the project will be two years through the program will be provided:
- Cost for management and implementation of the project (Project management and implementation) - funding is provided in the form of a single rate. Finance costs mainly related to management activities of the project (eg, planning, finance, coordination and communication between partners, etc.).
- International partnership meetings (Transnational project meetings) - funding is provided in the form of unit rates and is calculated using the distance calculator. Finances traveling expenses and subsistence.
- Events for dissemination (Multiplier events) - a grant is awarded in the form of unit costs per participant. To be given funds to cover the costs associated with the organization of national and international conferences / seminars / events for the sharing and dissemination of intellectual products generated within the project.